Jaki Liebezeit

CAN :The Free Concert

Peter Przygodda

Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli

The experimental German krautrockers CAN's legendary "Free Concert," recorded in Cologne's Sporthalle, Germany, on February 3, 1972. The circumstances of this Cologne show were unusual. Rather improbably for such an experimental band, Can actually scored a chart success in Germany with "Spoon," which would later be tacked onto the end of Ege Bamyasi.

CAN: The Documentary

Hannes Rossacher, Rudi Dolezal

Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit

The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows, concerts, and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal, mixing street music, jazz, folk, and rock into a sometimes poppy, sometimes abstract stew. The band's influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed.

Krautrock : The Rebirth of Germany

Benjamin Whalley

David Bowie, Edgar Froese

Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.

Can live in Soest, Winter 1970

Damo Suzuki, Holger Czukay

Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part I)

José Zegarra Holder, Adele Schmidt

Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit

The fourth in a series of feature-length documentaries about Progressive rock written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. Krautrock, Part 1 focuses on German progressive rock, popularly known as Krautrock, from in and around the Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg regions of Germany. Artist featured include Kraftwerk, Neu, Can, Faust and others.